Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

To respect a mystery is to make way for the answer.

...perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words...

To write is to feel the dance of your soul swirling in a dream that drips imagination onto paper.

If I can trust the word of a friend, why do I question the word of the God of the universe? Go figure. Sin is truly bizarre." [Running Scared, p. 111]

They put money into attack, by calling it defence.

I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

The most important of all the commandments of God is that one that you are having the most difficulty keeping today.

Where man is the end, or the means, all men are mean.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Science differs from politics or religion, in precisely this one discipline: we agree in advance to simply reject our own findings when they have been shown to be in error.